Vending machine

Claim 1

A CAN VENDER COMPRISING GUIDE AND SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR FOUR ADJACENT VERTICAL STACKS OF CANS ALL OF WHICH ARE DISPOSED WITH THEIR AXES HORIZONTAL AND PARALLEL, THE CANS IN EACH COLUMN BEING DISPOSED IN END-TO-END RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE ADJACENT COLUMN AND IN GENERALLY SIDEBY-SIDE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OTHER ADJACENT COLUMN, SAID GUIDE AND SUPPORT STRUCTURE COMPRISING VERTICAL SUPPORT SURFACES ENGAGING THE OUTER SIDES OF THE CANS AND A VERTICAL SEPARATOR INTERMEDIATE THE STACKS OF CANS IN SIDE-BYSIDE RELATIONSHIP AND COMPRISING IN ADDITION TWO PAIRS OF UPPER AND LOWER SUPPORT AND RELEASE MEMBERS, ALL OF SAID MEMBERS BEING PIVOTED FOR INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT ABOUT A HORIZONTAL AXIS LOCATED IN THE VERTICAL PLANE OF SAID SEPARATOR, EACH MEMBER HAVING PORTIONS MOVABLE ALTERNATELY INTO AND OUT OF CAN SUPPORTING POSITION AT OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID SEPARATOR, ELONGATED ACTUATOR MEANS EXTENDING FROM FRONT TO REAR OF SAID VENDER, DRIVE MECHANISM AT ONE END OF SAID VENDER COUPLED TO THE UPPER AND LOWER SUPPORT AND RELEASE MEMBERS AT SUCH END FOR EFFECTING INDEPENDENT ROCKING MOVEMENT THEREOF AND COUPLED ALSO TO THE ADJACENT END OF SAID ELONGATED ACTUATOR MEANS, AND MEANS AT THE OPPOSITE END OF SAID ELONGATED ACTUATOR MEANS COUPLING IT TO THE UPPER AND LOWER SUPPORT AND RELEASE MEMBERS AT THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID VENDER, AND MEANS FOR CONTROLLING SAID DRIVE MECHANISM TO MOVE SAID TWO PAIRS OF UPPER AND LOWER SUPPORTS AND RELEASE MEMBER SIMULTANEOUSLY IN SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL INCREMENTS OF A SEQUENCED MOVEMENT AT EACH OPERATION TO RELEASE A SINGLE CAN AT EACH OPERATION AND IN A PREDETERMINED REGULAR SEQUENCE.